St. Xavier's Sr. Sec. School, Delhi - 110 054
Syllabus for Class 7 (2016-2017)
Term
Unit Test 1 (FA1)
Literature:
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Language:
Lesson 4
Lesson 6
Reading Comprehension:
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ENGLISH
Idgah (Reading)
Authorship (Poem)
My Bank Account
Articles
Verbs
Unseen Passage
Half Yearly Exam (SA1)
Literature:
Lesson 5
The Penguins (Reading)
Lesson 6
The Nightingale and the Glow – worm (Poem)
Lesson 7
Waiting for Haria
Lesson 8
Seventeen Oranges
Lesson 9
No Men are Foreign (Poem)
Lesson 10
Kaku and the Catapult (Reading)
Language:
Lesson 3
Adjectives
Lesson 7
Verbs : Expressing the Present
Lesson 8
Verbs : Expressing the Past
Lesson 9
Verbs : Expressing the Future
Lesson 15
Conjunctions
Lesson 22
Words Often Confused
Writing :
Formal Letter
Diary Entry
Reading Comprehension: Passages from the Grammar Book.
Activity (FA2) :
1. Poem Recitation
2. Diary Entry
Term - II
Unit Test 2 (FA3)
Literature:
Lesson 12
Dal Delight
Lesson 15
The Echoing Green (Poem)
Language:
Lesson 12
Verbs : Active and Passive Voice
Lesson 24
Synonyms and Antonyms (selected)
Writing:
Notice Writing
Final Exam (SA2)
Literature:
Lesson 14
Home Under the Big Top (Reading)
Lesson 16
If I Were You (Play - ELL)
Lesson 17
My Early Days in England
Lesson 18
Somebody’s Mother (Poem)
Lesson 19
Patriotism
Lesson 20
The Why-Why Girl
Language:
Lesson 5
Pronouns
Lesson 10
Verbs’ Modals
Lesson 13
Adverbs
Lesson 14
Prepositions
Lesson 16
Direct and Indirect Speech (Assertive, Interrogatives, Imperatives)
Lesson 24
Synonyms and Antonyms (Selected)
Writing :
1. Making Advertisements
2. Paragraph Writing
Reading Comprehension: Passages from the Grammar Book.
Second Term Activity (FA4) :
1. Making Advertisements on two given topics.
2. Biographical Sketch
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Maths
Term I
Unit Test
1. Knowing Our Numbers – Introduction, Addition and Subtraction of Integers, Multiplication
and Division of Integers, Properties of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of
integers.
2. Understanding Shapes – Angles, pair of angles, transversal, angles formed by a transversal
to
two lines, angles formed by a transversal to parallel lines, construction of parallel lines.
Half Yearly Exam :
4. Rational Numbers – Positive and Negative rational numbers, Rational numbers on a number
line, Standard form of a rational numbers, Absolute value of rational numbers, Equivalent
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rational numbers, Comparison of rational numbers, Addition and Subtraction of rational
numbers, Multiplication and Division of rational numbers, Rational numbers as decimals,
Terminating and non – terminating decimals, Word Problems.
Decimals - Introduction, Multiplication and Division of decimal numbers.
Commercial Mathematics – Unitary Method, Percentage, Profit and Loss, Simple Interest.
Properties of Triangles – Introduction, Types of triangles, Interior and Exterior of a triangle,
Angle sum property of a triangle, Exterior angle property of a triangle, Pythagoras theorem
for right angled triangle, Sum of two sides of a triangle.
Data Handling – Introduction, Collection of data, Representation of data, drawing useful
information. (Average – mean, median, mode), bar graph.
Maths workshop
1. Integers
2. Understanding Shapes
3. Properties of triangles
4. Data Handling
Term II
Unit Test
1. Exponents (powers) – Laws of exponents
2. Congruence – Introduction, Congruence of simple geometrical shapes, Congruence of angles,
Triangles, Quadrilaterals and Circles, Congruence of triangles (S.S.S., S.A.S, A.S.A, R.H.S.).
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Final Exam:1. Algebraic Expressions - Introduction, Types of algebraic expressions, Constant, Coefficient
and Powers, Like and Unlike terms, Degree of an algebraic expressions, Addition and
Subtraction of algebraic expressions, Multiplication (monomial with monomial, monomial with
binomial and monomial with trinomial).
2. Simple Linear Equations – Root of an equation, Solution of linear equation, Simple
applications of
a linear equation.
3. Construction – Construction of triangles (S.S.S., S.A.S, A.S.A, R.H.S.)
4. Perimeter (square, rectangle, triangle), Area (square, rectangle, right isosceles triangle, right
angled triangle, triangle, parallelogram), Area between two rectangles, Circumference of a
circle,
Area of a circle.
Maths Workshop:1.
Congruence
2.
Symmetry
3.
4.
Representing 3-D in 2-D
Perimeter and Area
Science
Unit Test-1
Chapter 1 : Nutrition in Plants
Chapter 4 : Heat and Temperature
Half Yearly Examination
Chapter 2 : Nutrition in Animals
Chapter 3 : Animal Fibres
Chapter 5 : Matter and Chemical formulae
Chapter 8 : Weather, Climate and Animal Adaptations
Chapter 9 : Soil - A Natural Resource
Chapter 10 : Respiration in Organism
Chapter 17 : Water – A Life giving Liquid
Unit Test-2
Chapter 6
: Acids, Bases and its Salts
Chapter 16 : Electric Current and Simple Circuits
Final Exam
Chapter 7
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
: Physical and Chemical Changes
: Transportation and Excretion
: Reproduction in Plants
: Time and Motion
: Wind and Storm
: Light and Associated Phenomena
: Forests and their Conservation
: Management of Wastewater
Social Science
Term I
History :
Lesson 1
2
3
4
5
The Medieval Period (Unit Test 1)
Kings and Kingdoms of the Early Medieval Period
The Delhi Sultanate
The Mughal Empire
Architecture as Power (MCQ)
Geography:
Lesson 1
2
3
4
The Earth’s Structure and Landforms (Unit Test 1)
The Atmosphere
Water
How Surface Landforms Change
5
Diversity of Life on Earth (MCQ)
Diagrams Fig 1.2 – The layers of the earth
Fig 2.1 – Layers of the Atmosphere
Fig 2.5 – Permanent pressure belts of the world
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Fig 3.9
Fig 4.3
Fig 4.4
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Map – Major Ocean Currents
Waterfall
Natural Levees
Civics:
Lesson 1
2
3
4
Democracy and Equality (Unit Test 1)
State Government : The Legislature
State Government : The Executive
Role of the State Government (MCQ)
Term II
Geography:
Lesson 6
7
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Settlement, Transport and Communication (Unit Test 2)
Life in Deserts
Life in Tropical and Subtrotical Regions
Life in Temperate Regions (MCQ)
Maps & Diagrams –
Map Fig – 6.9
Map Fig – 7.1
Map Fig – 8.5
Locations of some important ports and airports.
The Locations of the Sahara Desert and Ladakh.
Ganga – Brahmputra basin: Physical features.
History :
Lesson 6
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Towns, Traders and Craftsmen (Unit Test 2)
Mobile and Settled Communities.
Religious Developments
The Flowering of Regional Cultures
India in the Eighteenth Century (MCQ)
Civics:
Lesson 5
6
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Gender and Inequalities (Unit Test 2)
The Media and Democracy
Advertising
Markets Around Us (MCQ)
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Computer
Term-I
Chapter 1
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
: Introduction to computers: Networking
: Introduction to HTML
: Creating webpage using HTML
Class test from chapter 1 and 4.
Term-II
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
: Learn to use adobe flash CS3
: More on Internet
Chapter 8
: Computer Ethics, Crime and Security
Class test from chapter 7 and 8.
Term I
Value Education
Test 1
Diary Page – 12 & Lesson: 1,2,3
Test 2
Diary Pages – 15,16 & Lesson: 4,5,6
Term II
Test 3
Diary Page – 17 (School Tradition) & Lesson: 7, 8, 9
Test 4
Diary Page – 8 Morning and Afternoon Prayer & Lesson : 10,11, 12
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